Holiday Beach Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 19, 2009 -------------------------------------------------------------------
Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total ------------------ ----------- -------------- -------------- Turkey Vulture 321 39192 40447 Osprey 0 19 91 Bald Eagle 0 50 142 Northern Harrier 3 185 520 Sharp-shinned Hawk 11 4075 9237 Cooper's Hawk 8 547 731 Northern Goshawk 0 14 15 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 685 690 Broad-winged Hawk 0 120 18292 Red-tailed Hawk 3 3181 3403 Rough-legged Hawk 0 2 2 Golden Eagle 0 24 25 American Kestrel 1 693 1713 Merlin 1 53 116 Peregrine Falcon 1 57 91 Unknown Accipiter 0 1 7 Unknown Buteo 0 3 10 Unknown Eagle 0 0 0 Unknown Falcon 0 0 1 Unknown Raptor 0 0 1 Swainson's Hawk 0 2 2 Total: 349 48903 75536 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation start time: 07:00:00 Observation end time: 14:00:00 Total observation time: 7 hours Official Counter: Claude Radley, Justin Bosler Observers: Claude Radley, Dorothy McLeer Visitors: Six visitors made it out to the Tower today. Claude Radley manned the Tower during the 0700 to 0800 (EST) hour prior to my arrival, and Dorothy McCleer stopped by for the final hour. Weather: Partly to mostly cloudy skies with South-southwest to South winds at 6 to 12 mph. Temps. ranged from 7.5 to about 14C. Visibility fair with little to no improvement. Raptor Observations: A very slow day highlighted by a steady trickle of vultures and one of each regularly occurring falcon species. Non-raptor Observations: 14 species of waterfowl, Black-crowned Night-heron- 2, Great Egret- 8, Common Moorhen- 2+, Killdeer- 10, Pectoral Sandpiper- 3, Wilson's Snipe- 2, Chimney Swift- 6, Blue Jay- 1,810, Am. Crow- 60, Horned Lark- 10 Am. Pipit- 55, Cedar Waxwing- 64, Indigo Bunting- 1, Eastern Meadowlark- 2, Purple Finch- 7, Am. Goldfinch- 340. Predictions: Mostly cloudy skies with Southwest winds at 5 to 10 mph. High of 15C. It's setting up to be another slow day with perhaps even fewer vultures in the reduced winds. ======================================================================== Report submitted by Justin Bosler ([email protected]) Holiday Beach Migration Observatory information may be found at: http://hbmo.org/ _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to ONTBIRDS mailing list [email protected] For information about ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/
